Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

People can commend the weather without envy.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.